Riders on the Storm: Workplace Solidarity among Gig Economy Couriers in Italy and the UK
Riders on the Storm: Workplace Solidarity among Gig Economy Couriers in Italy and the UK
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暴风雨中的骑手：意大利和英国零工经济快递员的工作场所团结
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2019
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Vincenzo Maccarrone
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Arianna Tassinari;Vincenzo Maccarrone
鉴于“零工经济”中零工工作的个性化、分散性和普遍监督，零工工人之间的团结发展预计是不可能的。然而，最近发生的许多零工工人动员事件需要重新考虑这些假设。这篇文章有助于讨论在不断变化的工作世界中团结的潜力和障碍，展示了在英国和意大利两个食品配送平台快递员动员案例中，零工工人之间的工作场所团结发展的过程。通过劳动过程理论的框架，本文确定了应用程序为中介的工作组织模式中的对抗来源，以及促进和阻碍积极团结的巩固和零工工人集体行动的出现的因素。文章强调了工人的代理实践在克服团结和集体行动的限制方面的中心地位，以及在敌对的工作环境中表达团结的形式的多样性。
In light of the individualisation, dispersal and pervasive monitoring that characterise work in the ‘gig economy’, the development of solidarity among gig workers could be expected to be unlikely. However, numerous recent episodes of gig workers’ mobilisation require reconsideration of these assumptions. This article contributes to the debate about potentials and obstacles for solidarity in the changing world of work by showing the processes through which workplace solidarity among gig workers developed in two cases of mobilisation of food delivery platform couriers in the UK and Italy. Through the framework of labour process theory, the article identifies the sources of antagonism in the app-mediated model of work organisation and the factors that facilitated and hindered the consolidation of active solidarity and the emergence of collective action among gig workers. The article emphasises the centrality of workers’ agential practices in overcoming constraints to solidarity and collective action, and the diversity of forms through which solidarity can be expressed in hostile work contexts.